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From: Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Programming Languages
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:49:03 +0000
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On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:17:24 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 17:37:43 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 09:24:39 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 08:59:36 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 13:13:12 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On 2/11/2024 11:40 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:44:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:50:41 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Nick Hayward
>>>>>>> <nhayward8990@protonmail.com> wrote in <vg3m01$3e15j$2@dont-email.me>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:57:21 +0100, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 11/1/24 19:04, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
>>>>>>>>>> more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep
>>>>>>>>>> the rest; I'll stick with that.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Agreed! All the hand-holding of later ve
>>rsions just get in the way.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What about C++?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It is a crime against humanity!!!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Then we're all agreed: C++ is an abomination in the sight of the Lord
>>>>>> and the invention of the Devil himself.
>>>>>
>>>>>Jan Panteltje and Cursitor Doom are a very small - and poorly informed - 
>>>>>element of our community.
>>>>>
>>>>>That they both agree is evidence that the proposition is probably flawed.
>>>>
>>>>Or - more likely - that it doesn't conform to your rather bizarre
>>>>world-view, Bill.
>>>
>>>His world view is that he knows everything and everyone else is stupid
>>>so deserves insults.
>>>
>>>That's really sad.
>>
>>I had to laugh out loud when I read that because it's *so* true. The
>>condescension in particular is off the scale. It's a wonder he deigns
>>to talk to anyone at all! But his limited vocabulary gives him away
>>every time. Have you noticed how fond of the word 'fatuous' he is?
>>That's his go-to insult for just about everything.
>
>Best to ignore him.

Absolutely. And I shall do once again when the sham election is
finally over and Kamala Harris declared the winner.